The Nature Conservancy

🚨 Nearly 3 million acres in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante just lost the protections provided by national monument designation, opening these landscapes to potential mining, development and other uses.

For decades, The Nature Conservancy has worked alongside Tribal Nations, ranchers, federal agencies and local communities to conserve these landscapes while sustaining working lands central to the region's heritage and economy.

That's why we do not support reducing the size of either monument.

Read our full statement: https://nature.ly/3SYdAZ3